train affections

Your frequent self-underestimating serves as humility and keeps us on the same level, which is difficult to maintain because my confidence and assertion of personality ride circular-spiral escalators, even if you press all of the elevator buttons at once it can be difficult to keep the signals strong.

 

Even so, we both manage to end up grounded in time to catch the same subway car. Trains offer us the opportunity to remain quite still and also rocket forward. I think perhaps that’s why they captivate us so much.

 

And perhaps why we captivate each other.

 

You can’t steer a train, but you do choose your destination and how you spend the time on board.

 

And anyway, train tracks are contour; so there can be no such thing here as a power struggle.

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Uploaded on February 15, 2005
Taken on February 15, 2005